Band 5 Pharmacy Technician

HCRG Care Group; Old Woking; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Discounts via My Reward Hub

Wages as you earn

Wellbeing support

Career development & eLearning

Innovation funding

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking a Pharmacy Technician to join our Surrey Children's Services Team, supporting the Lead Pharmacist in medicines optimisation across services for children, young people and families.

This role offers hybrid working with an office base in Surrey and opportunities to contribute to audits, governance and continuous improvement in medicines management.

Qualifications

• Registration as a Qualified Pharmacy Technician with an NVQ Level 3 qualification or equivalent.
• Knowledge of medicines legislation and medicines management within community services.
• The ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent IT and data management skills.
• High levels of accuracy, attention to detail and sound decision-making abilities.

Responsibilities

• Promote best practice in medicines optimisation across Children’s Services.
• Build strong relationships with clinical colleagues, commissioners and partner organisations.
• Support medicines optimisation work programmes across the ICS and ICB.
• Analyse medicines-related data, audits and incident reports, providing recommendations for improvement.
• Produce and present reports relating to medicines governance and optimisation activities.
• Support the development and implementation of medicines-related SOPs.
• Undertake audits, service reviews and site visits to strengthen medicines governance.
• Contribute to PGD governance and non-medical prescribing governance.
• Help ensure the safe handling, storage and administration of medicines across services.
• Provide medicines-related advice, training and competency support to colleagues.
• Support quality improvement initiatives involving controlled drugs, antimicrobials and MARs.
• Represent the Lead Pharmacist at medicines management meetings when required.
• Keep up to date with legislative, regulatory and professional developments relevant to medicines practice.

Skills

Pharmacy technician

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Communication skills

IT & data management

Attention to detail

Decision making

Professional judgment

Education

NVQ Level 3 qualification or equivalent

Job description

As a Pharmacy Technician within our Children's Services Team in Surrey, you'll be part of an organisation that is committed to helping colleagues thrive professionally and personally. Alongside a rewarding role that makes a real difference to children, young people and families, you'll benefit from:

• Band 5 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Are you a motivated and forward-thinking Pharmacy Technician looking to make a meaningful impact on children's healthcare? We have an exciting opportunity to join our Surrey Children's Services Team, supporting the Lead Pharmacist in delivering high-quality medicines optimisation across services that support children, young people and families. This is a unique opportunity to work beyond traditional pharmacy settings, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to improve medicines safety, governance and effectiveness across community-based children's services. You'll play a key role in supporting medicines optimisation initiatives, undertaking audits, reviewing prescribing activity, monitoring medicine-related incidents and ensuring learning is embedded across services. Your expertise will help ensure safe, effective and compliant medicines management while supporting service improvements and innovation. Base: Our Healthy Family Teams support services across Surrey, and you'll be based from one of our Surrey office hubs, with the opportunity for hybrid working. At HCRG Care Group, we're proud to be a flexible-first employer. While you'll have an office base, we support agile and hybrid working arrangements wherever possible.

Main Responsibilities In this varied and rewarding role, you will:

• Promote best practice in medicines optimisation across Children's Services.
• Build strong relationships with clinical colleagues, commissioners and partner organisations.
• Support medicines optimisation work programmes across the Integrated Care System (ICS) and Integrated Care Board (ICB).
• Analyse medicines-related data, audits and incident reports, providing recommendations for improvement.
• Produce and present reports relating to medicines governance and optimisation activities.
• Support the development and implementation of medicines-related Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Undertake audits, service reviews and site visits to strengthen medicines governance.
• Contribute to Patient Group Direction (PGD) governance and Non-Medical Prescribing governance.
• Help ensure the safe handling, storage and administration of medicines across services.
• Provide medicines-related advice, training and competency support to colleagues.
• Support quality improvement initiatives involving controlled drugs, antimicrobials and medicines administration records.
• Represent the Lead Pharmacist at medicines management meetings when required.
• Keep up to date with legislative, regulatory and professional developments relevant to medicines practice.
• Maintain professional standards in accordance with GPhC and Royal Pharmaceutical Society guidance, Access to a vehicle insured for business use to facilitate travel across Surrey sites.
  Registration as a Qualified Pharmacy Technician with an NVQ Level 3 qualification or equivalent.
• Knowledge of medicines legislation and medicines management within community services.
• The ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise competing demands.
• A proactive and self-motivated approach.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent IT and data management skills.
• High levels of accuracy, attention to detail and sound decision-making abilities.

Desirable

• Experience using ePACT prescribing data.
• Previous experience within community health services or primary care settings.
• Understanding of medicines optimisation in community healthcare environments.
  We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.